Important Travel Information on the Godstone Sink Hole

Annual General Meeting

The first part of this meeting will be the AGM, providing an update on your branch’s status. There will be a treasures report on the South London Branch workshop delivered by our chairman Trevor Keast and a treasurer’s report on the South London Branch delivered by Barnaby Smith. You will have the opportunity to meet members of the committee standing for a further year of office and briefly discuss any issues that you may have.

Dale Sandeson MBHI MA

Horological highlights of the Russell Coates Museum.
The Joseph Dodds nautical watch with constant force escapement

Dale Sandeson Is a clock maker and horological conservator in West Sussex. Working from the Midhurst area. Dale trained at West Dean College and gained a Master of Arts Degree in conservation 2019, He is an ICON accredited conservator. Some of you will be familiar with the short presentations he gave us when he was a student, and we warmly welcome him back. Now married and he has recently become a father. He has been persuaded to come and tell us about the Horological highlights that he found at the Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. Dale was particularly interested in the Joseph Dodds constant force escapement watch and has done some further research along with Jonathan Betts into the story of this fine London clockmaker.

I recently interviewed Dale on what took him down the horological path, and He felt there was something missing with schooling. Dale said he was always very good on the analytical side specifically Maths and Science, but there was not the opportunity of being taught to work with your hands. He had several jobs, including being a landscape gardener and a window fitter in the 10 years from leaving school. Dale’s father introduced him to a friend in his own words “an old boy horologist who had an interest in turret clocks”, he caught the horological virus. Dale applied and was accepted To the West Dean foundation programme. He had also applied to the Birmingham City university BHI horological course.

Duncan Greig.